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After\u00a0giving speeches and seminars I am often asked during the question and answer period, or later as I chat with people one-on-one, what books about\u00a0leadership that I would recommend for purposes of personal leadership development. Here they are:<\/span><\/p>\n

“A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness”<\/strong> by Nassir Ghaemi.<\/span>\u00a0The Penguin Press, New York, 2011.<\/p>\n

“Creative Experience” <\/strong>by\u00a0Mary Parker Follett.<\/span> New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1924.<\/p>\n

“Drucker on Leadership:\u00a0New Lessons from the Father of Modern Management”<\/strong> by William A. Cohen<\/span>. New York:\u00a0John Wiley and Sons, 2009.<\/p>\n

“Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”<\/strong> by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. <\/span>New York: Penguin Books, 2003.<\/p>\n

“Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box”<\/strong> by The Arbinger Institute<\/span>, 2010.<\/p>\n

“Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”<\/strong> by Margaret J. Wheatley<\/span>.\u00a0San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009. (3rd edition).<\/p>\n

“Mary Parker Follett: Prophet of Management”<\/strong> edited by Pauline Graham<\/span>.\u00a0Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.<\/p>\n

“On Becoming a Leader”<\/strong> by Warren Bennis. Philadelphia, PA: Basic Books, 2009.<\/p>\n

“Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes” <\/strong>by Alfie Kohn<\/span>.\u00a0Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999.<\/p>\n

“Seeing Systems: \u00a0Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life”<\/strong> by Barry Oshry<\/span>.\u00a0San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007.<\/p>\n

“The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall”<\/strong> by Danny Miller.<\/span> New York: HarperCollins, 1990.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change\u201d<\/strong> by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr<\/span>. \u00a0HarperBusiness, 2003.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I find that I often learn the most about leadership by reading about historical events and how leaders shaped them. If you like history, and want to study leadership via reading about history, go here: \u00a0Leadership in History<\/a><\/p>\n

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